Team Print

Our groups' little day trip that Paul organised to Team Print studios was actually incredibly inspiring. It made me realise not only how much of an industry their was and how much graphic designers rely on something like this, but also the amount of different processes, technology and possibilities there was in a well equipped digital print warehouse like this. The dude that took us around was really friendly, he gave us presents and drove us home, it was the best day ever. The warehouse was massive, I didn't expect anything like that size, but as far as it seemed Team Print were a pretty successful company; they had a decent flow of jobs coming from all over the UK. What was good to hear was how closely they worked with designers, like you could take work for mock-ups and try a few different processes until you got it the way you want it. There was a huge array of different printers for big and small jobs, a lot of the different printing techniques were well over my head, it was a whole new world to me, but in a good way.

It looked like the future for print studios like Team Print was the proper massive ink jet style digital printers, that printed continuous lines rather than dots like on a normal litho printer. At the moment they can only do up to A3 and were a lot better for smaller jobs but they definitely produced much higher quality prints, so it was interesting to see that in action. Also, some of the work like templates for business cards needed to be done through other businesses so felt like that was a little bit of an insight into how the industry worked.